Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
THE RAILROADS.
The AYant Courier of the Great Frisco
System in Fort Worth to Inter-
view Cur People,
What the Missouri Pacific Immigration
Agent Says the Railroads Are willing
to Do for Fort Worth.
Home Notes.

J. NJ. Steere, assistant freight agent of
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, is in
Fort Worth.
W. Il. CogswelI, travelling freight agent
of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, was
in Fort Worth last night
J. NJ. Phillips, master of transportation
on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, was
in Fort Worth yesterday.
Messrs. McCulIoch, Murray and Gal
braith, ali of the Missouri Pacific, spent
several hours in Fort Worth yesterday in
the interest Of their railroad.
G. B. Jones, live stock agent of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, is in
Fort Worth. His road will have a large
number of cattle from this city.
The next California excursion train will
leave Fort Worth on May 5. A large
number of persons have already decided
to visit the Pacific, and will be in Fort
Worth on that day to board the train.
The work goes steadily on in the Pan
handle, and the Fort Worth and Denver
is mile to mile and three-quarters
. nearer to Denver every night. Construc-
ton on great trunk lines centering at Fort
Worth continues in Texas.
It is rumored that the Missouri Pacific
may debate the eXpediency of locating
division agency in Fort Worth. THE
GAZETTE tried to run the rumor down,
but failed to trace it to a reliable source.
THE GAZETTE believes such move would
be beneficial to the road.
The arrangements for the excursion on
the Fort Worth and Rio Grande are all
completed, and at 10 O'Clock sharp this
morning the first passenger train on
the Fort Worth and Rio Grande
will leave the Union depot. The Iocomo-
tive is brand new, the coaches are new,
the track is new and the road is the latest
addition to our superb railway system.
Many of our leading citizens will be on
board the train. The excursionists will
eat dinner on the banks of the ella ssic
Mustang.
Mr.. A. B. Judkins Of Springfield, H.,
the famous immigration agent of the
Missouri Pacific, who has been in the city
several days with q party of excursion
lists, returned to Springfield last night.
Accompanying the gentleman were Mr..
j. D. Hill Of Fort Scott. president of the
gasWoTks company and q prominent and
wealthy citizen, and Colonel Chenault,
well known banker, also of
Fort Scott. The gentlemen
were well pIe&Seu WIN t0rE worm. Mr.. /
Judkins says the railroads centering at
Fort Worth could do much for this city if /
our real estate men and farmers will |
change their course in regard to one |
thing. Hundreds of well-to-do farmers |
in the north apply to the railroad agents
IN regard to good locations in
Texas; they want to buy eighty acres
or 100 acres of land to farm on; they will
not buy more, they do not understand
tilling 2000 or 300G acres of land, or even
$40 acres; they believe in a little farm I
well titled. Now, Mr.. JDdkins says he
has repeatedly tried to induce farmers
near Fort Worth, who own large farms,
to sell eighty or 160 acres, but
they refuse to sell anything
but the entire tract, and the
railroads are forced to locate them where
they can get what they want. Fort Worth
merchants want the retail trade to be 4
quit up, but look around the city and
you md nothing but immense farms with (
t"o or three families on them, where
there should be ten or twenty. He says '
Lug -FeaI estate agents should exert